Garth Brooks Opens CMA Awards 2018 With Tribute to Borderline Shooting Victims - Watch

Garth Brooks is paying tribute.

The country superstar led a moment of silence dedicated to the 12 people killed at the Borderline Bar & Grill at the 2018 CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 14) in Nashville, Tenn.

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“On behalf of our country music community I want to say that tonight’s show is lovingly dedicated to the 12 individuals who we lost far too soon just a week ago tonight at the Borderline in Thousand Oaks, California,” he said.

“Tonight let’s celebrate their lives, let the music unite us with love and their enduring memory. So please join me now in a moment of silence.”

Watch below.